{"id":314557,"date":"2025-11-28T15:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T15:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/314557\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T15:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T15:41:07","slug":"justin-faulk-reportedly-drawing-trade-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/314557\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Faulk Reportedly Drawing Trade Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his recent look into the potential trade board heading into 2026, Sportsnet\u2019s Nick Kyperos believes<\/a> that St. Louis Blues defenseman Justin Faulk<\/a> is drawing plenty of trade interest from around the league. According to Kyperos, interested teams are considering Faulk a fallback option for those that fail to land Rasmus Andersson<\/a> from the Calgary Flames.<\/p>\n

Outside of not having as much trade value as Andersson, Faulk would be more complicated to trade for. The 15-year veteran is signed through the 2026-27 season at a $6.5MM cap hit and has a 15-team no-trade clause for this season and next.<\/p>\n

Despite not displaying the offensive prowess he showed a few years ago, Faulk has stayed relatively consistent as he enters the back-nine of his NHL career. The 33-year-old rear guard scored 27 goals and 97 points in 158 games for the Blues from 2021 to 2023, with a +37 rating. He wasn\u2019t a stranger to a heavy workload at the time, either, averaging 23:17 of ice time per game.<\/p>\n

Factoring in his physicality and willingness to block shots during those two years, it\u2019s no question why Faulk earned a few Norris votes, albeit at the bottom of the table. Since then, especially as St. Louis has entered a transitional period of their own, Faulk has seen his offensive production fall by a healthy margin.<\/p>\n

Since the beginning of the 2023-24 campaign, Faulk has scored 12 goals and 75 points in 162 contests, a more than 20-point dropoff from his production from 2021 to 2023. However, although his physicality has fallen somewhat, Faulk remains a quality shot blocker while averaging more than 22 minutes of ice time per contest.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s actually shown a slight uptick in his defensive metrics, as well. Averaging a 91.1% on-ice save percentage at even strength throughout his time with the Blues, Faulk averaged a 91.7% mark in 2023-24, and 91.6% last season.<\/p>\n

Although Kyperos didn\u2019t mention any interested parties, there are a few teams that could theoretically use Faulk\u2019s service, despite the relatively high cap hit for an in-season trade. The Detroit Red Wings, who have fallen to 25th place in GA\/G, could certainly use more skill on the blue line.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the Carolina Hurricanes and Utah Mammoth, each of which have ample cap space and has dealt with multiple injuries to their defensive core this season, may swing a trade for Faulk to improve the floor of their depth options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his recent look into the potential trade board heading into 2026, Sportsnet\u2019s Nick Kyperos believes that St.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,168440,10232,575,85,3935],"class_list":{"0":"post-314557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-justin-faulk","11":"tag-newsstand","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-st-louis-blues"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}